Lost Architecture of Jean Welz

Peter Wyeth has been making films since the 1970s, including several with the Arts Council of Great Britain, one of which about a modernist block of flats in London, inspired by Hokusai ("12 Views of Kensal House") was runner-up for best documentary. He started a forgotten film-mag North by North West, and in 1994 directed "The Diary of Arthur Crew Inman," based on the 17-million-word and longest diary in America and named a London Times "Film of the Week." From 1999-2003, Wyeth was head of the film school at University of the Arts London, where he taught for ten years and set up the student-run channel Xplore.tv. His short film "Pane" won a Turner Classic Movies award in 2003. His book The Matter of Vision: Effective Neurobiology and Cinema was published by Indiana University Press in 2015 (in the UK by John Libbey Media) and over the past twelve years he has written dozens of articles on architecture and design for The Modernist. He continues to direct, including for television. He lives in London and Paris.

The Mystery of Jean Welz

Part I: Invisible

Jean Welz Does Not Exist

Le Château Moche — Paris, Christmas Day 2012

The Tradouw Pass — 1940

Part II: Vienna

Finis Austriae — Vienna, October 1918

Josef Hoffmann and The First Wave

Adolf Loos and the Second Wave

Hans Welz Architect

Part III: Paris

Art Deco — Paris, 1925

The Guevrekian Letter

The Third Man Mallet-Stevens / Le Corbusier / Jean Welz

Raymond Fischer

Le Chemin Aérien / The Aerial Way

"Un Nègre Viennois”

Part IV: Oeuvre

The Portfolio

House for an Artist

Inondation — Montauban, 1931

Maison Landau A Minimum House

Villa Darmstadter —1932

Oswald Haerdtl — 1932

Maison Zilveli — 1933

Mont D'Or and Pavillon D'Autriche The Unbuilt

Part V: Tales

A Tale of Two Balconies

A Tale of Two Brothers The Dealer and the Artist

Corbusier's Note

The Martienssen Affair

A Tale of Three Monuments

Part VI: Jean

House on the Lake

The Dialogues of Jean Welz

Pains and Pleasures of Anonymity

A Solitary Adventure The Character of Jean Welz

Christensen Gallery Inger Welz

Zilveli Destroyed

Appendices

After Architecture South Africa Addendum

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Plates